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Cache placed in Cairnryan. The cache name comes from the adverts for the Ferry company who use the port nearby.
(Thanks to JackieC for maintaining this cache for us)
Small box suitable to be used as a travel bug hotel.
Cairnryan's status as an important ferry port looks to be secured, with ferries continuing to depart from this port in Cairnryan and and also from a new terminal at Old House Point.
This means a major financial investment in the North Channel routes and significant long term security for the village and the wider Loch Ryan basin.
During World War II, Cairnryan became No.2 Military Port, and three harbour piers and a military railway, linking the village with nearby Stranraer, were built by the army. Only one of the piers still remains, one was dismantled and another was destroyed in an ammunition explosion shortly after the war. The remaining pier is now in a state of disrepair and is fenced off to the public. However, many anglers still take their chances and use the pier, as its offers rich pickings for a variety of seafish such as mackerel, cod, dogfish, mullet and plaice.
Thousands of troops were based locally, in military camps. At the end of the war, the Atlantic U-Boat fleet surrendered in Loch Ryan and was anchored in the port before being towed to the North Channel and scuttled. This activity was codenamed 'Operation Deadlight'.
For a period after the war, the port was used to load superfluous ammunition onto army landing craft for disposal at sea - a hazardous task, which took the lives of several at the port, while the long-term and wider risks of such dumping have only later become more evident. In 1957 and 1958, Cairnryan Wharf and the port/jetty were again used in a joint Army/RAF operation called 'Operation Hardrock'. This operation was to build a rocket-tracking station on the remote island of St Kilda. Heavy plant and other equipment was transported to and fro, using RASC Landing Craft Tanks (LCT's). Military activity finally ceased in the early 1960s, when most of the military infrastructure was abandoned, then dismantled, apart from the afore-mentioned military jetty which remains, albeit in a perilous state.
In the early 1950s, to the South End of the village, a number of council houses were built at Claddyburn Terrace, which increased the village's population.
In the late 1960s, Ship breaking then became the main industry; the great British aircraft carriers HMS Centaur, HMS Bulwark, HMS Eagle, and HMS Ark Royal were all sent here for demolition, as well as a number of other vessels, including HMS Mohawk and HMS Blake. As recently as 1990, Soviet Navy submarines were being dismantled here for scrap.
From the 1960s, through to the 1990s, the Croach Quarry was the scene of many explosions and excavations of stone.
The main facilities in the village today, are a Hotel, some Bed and Breakfasts / Guest Houses, the Caravan Site built on the site of an old war camp site, Village Shop and a Restaurant. Up until the early 2000s, there was also a Post Office and Petrol Station. The village church was demolished in 1990.
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